The CyberSangha Podcast

Realizing the Power of Boundless Creativity

Episode 25, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.”
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Our true nature is pure, spacious awareness. The more familiar we are with this spaciousness of mind, the closer we are to the source of spontaneous creativity. In a live internet broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche teaches and guides a meditation that helps us to rest in the vast openness within, let go of any negative sense of identity that limits our true potential, and realize our innate power to benefit ourselves and our world through boundless creativity.

Biocognition and Breath: Cultivating Health and Longevity

Episode 24, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.”
Featuring: Mario Martinez, Willa Blythe Baker, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich
Do cultural beliefs affect how your body manifests? Do some subconscious cultural mindsets actually contribute to addiction, obesity, and poor health, even more so than genetics? In mindful breath practice we experience, and science documents, healthy changes in mind and body. Supported by breath, we can cultivate a sense of joy and recognize our inner connectedness. We know this sense of belonging leads to longer life. What other factors can unlock the biocognitive(mind/body/culture) blocks to happiness and longevity?
For this inspiring and free online Science & Spirituality dialog, the speaker panel includes pioneering clinical neuropsychologist Mario Martinez who brings an illuminating vocabulary and understanding of biocognition to neuropsychology; meditation teacher/lama and scholar Willa Blythe Baker whose practices on breath, embodiment, and wilderness, address stress and resilience in a time of eco-anxiety; Dzogchen master and teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche; and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich. From their varied perspectives, they will share practices that allow your inner wisdom, unbound by cultural bias, to guide you to greater spiritual and physical wellbeing.

Meet the Director of “Broken Wings”

Episode 23, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.”
Featuring: film director Shenpenn Khymsar, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and host Jhama Lhamo.
Meet Shenpenn Khymsar, director of Broken Wings, the first Bollywood feature film directed by a Tibetan and the first feature to come out of Darjeeling in the Indian/International cinema world. Inspired by true events, it’s a tragic love story set in the post-1986 Gorkhaland agitation in Darjeeling, India. The film can be viewed in theaters throughout India (and later Nepal) beginning Friday, April 29, 2022; and will be released on streaming platforms by fall 2022. Produced by Monk and the Warrior Productions.
The conversation can be considered a family affair, as Shenpenn Khymsar is the nephew of Tenzin Rinpoche’s wife, Khandro Tsering Wangmo Khymsar; and host Jhama Lhamo is Rinpoche’s half-sister.

Realizing the Power of Your True Voice

Episode 23, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.”
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Resting our voice in silence is a doorway to deep inner peace. It allows the light of pure awareness to dawn in us, and helps us to realize our true voice. In a live internet broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche teaches and guides a meditation that helps us to connect with that true voice and to realize its power to help us communicate more clearly and effectively.

Embodied Emotions: New Pathways to Freedom

Episode 22, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.”
Featuring: Eve Ekman, Bessel van der Kolk, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich
Presenters and hosts delve into trauma and emotions and how the body keeps score by affecting the very perception through which an individual meets life. The panel presented differing understandings on how trauma can be healed and why.
Eve Ekman draws from her work on a Dalai Lama-supported project to increase emotion awareness through an online Atlas of Emotions and her recent research on the meditation practice of working with difficult emotions: Feeding Your Demons. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score, brings poignant insight into the impact of emotions and how the body keeps score of them. One particular topic of interest is the use of psychedelics, specifically MDMA, and how this effective treatment must be presented in sacred space and not abused.

Embracing the Suffering Me, Cultivating the Freedom of Being No One

Episode 21, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In a live online teaching and guided meditation, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting our “pain identity” — the mistaken sense of self who continually suffers  — with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways to realizing the liberating truth of no-self. The broadcast marks the start of Month 12 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!

Embracing Apathy, Cultivating Joyful Engagement

Episode 20, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any sense of apathy we may be experiencing with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways to fuller, more joyful engagement in life. The broadcast marks the start of Month 11 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!
In his teaching, Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of facing challenges, cultivating joyful engagement, and paying attention to our emotions. He also touches on our potential for personal change, the significance of getting a good sleep, and the need to be mindful of engaging with social media and technology. He highlights the role of self-awareness and the power of meditation, particularly loving kindness meditation, in promoting personal growth and reducing stress.
In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmth and connection to yourself. You might provide a comfortable cushion to sit on, and a candle or stick of incense. A supportive outer space can support your inner space during meditation.

Awareness as Medicine: The Best Cure for Burnout Is Here, Within Us

Episode 19, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Nikki Mirghafori, Paul Condon, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich.
It’s one thing to be fatigued. It’s another to be exhausted. When we put too much effort over time into thinking, speaking, or doing, at some point we can cross the line into irritability, extreme fatigue, even burnout. We may lose the ability to concentrate or remember, and our motivation for engaging in what we love most. Excessive fatigue can lead to headaches, digestive problems, or illness from a weakened immune system. How much effort is too much? Before crossing the line into burnout, how can we use exhaustion to our advantage? What role can awareness play in the cure? Join us in a fascinating discussion from the perspectives of both science and spirituality.